To make up for lack of interaction under Covid-19 restrictions, apes at zoos 150km apart can now watch each others’ daily lives on big screens Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Humans might be tiring of video calls, Zoom birthdays and streamed performances, but the chimps at two Czech zoos are just …
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Move follows supreme court ruling that drivers are workers but critics say they are still short-changed Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling. The ride-hailing app said drivers would start benefiting from the changes from Wednesday while retaining the right …
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Campaign comes amid warnings that company removes Spanish misinformation less consistently than English material Members of Congress and activist groups have called on Facebook to address its “Spanish-language disinformation crisis”, urging the company to make major policy changes on the platforms it owns. In a new campaign launched on Tuesday, the Democratic representative Tony Cardenas …
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Former high-flying Finnish phone firm to use estimated €600m in savings to fund R&D to catch up with rivals The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia has unveiled plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years, and wants to use the savings to catch up with rivals on 5G technologies. The company …
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Residents forced to move in 2017 when site was earmarked for LCD screen production The head of Taiwanese manufacturing company Foxconn has said it could start making electric vehicles at a previously abandoned Wisconsin project Donald Trump had claimed would be the “eighth wonder of the world”. Speaking in Taipei on Tuesday Foxconn chairman Young …
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With stages closed, dancers have thrived on Instagram and TikTok, given innovative online performances and found a huge new audience The first time I cried watching someone dance in their living room was in April last year. A few weeks into the first lockdown, unnerved by sudden confinement, there was ballerina Céline Gittens on my …
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Taking a fanboy stance on Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht doesn’t help Tiller Russell’s underpowered Silicon Valley crime drama Here’s an unthrilling, bland drama about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the illegal online drug emporium Silk Road (described by the FBI as “the Amazon of drug sites”). Between 2011 and …
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Second-gen Nest Hub avoids the user needing to wear a bracelet or headband and acts as smart alarm Google’s latest Nest Hub smart display tracks sleep with miniaturised radar without the user having to wear a bracelet or headband. The revamped 7in Google Assistant smart display is being repositioned as a smart alarm clock and …
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Electric carmaker’s submission to the government said grants for battery powered cars could be revenue-neutral Elon Musk’s Tesla lobbied the UK government to raise taxes on petrol and diesel cars in order to fund bigger subsidies for electric vehicles, alongside a ban on hybrids. The US electric car pioneer called for a rise in fuel …
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Washington Post reported on the study which confirmed what researchers have long argued about: the echo chamber effect A small subset of Facebook users is reportedly responsible for the majority of content expressing or encouraging skepticism about Covid-19 vaccines, according to early results from an internal Facebook study. The study, first reported by the Washington …
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